2020

These Violent Delights

By Chloe Gong - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Gross, violent, beautiful, and poetic, Chloe Gong’s reimagined tale of Shakespeare’s two star-crossed lovers features the city of Shanghai in the 1920...Read Review

Hard Times

By Les Edgerton - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The promise of Amelia’s schoolgirl achievement and young love with a newcomer to the bottomlands fade to teasing memories as she comes ...Read Review

Death and the Maiden (Mistress of the Art of Death)

By Ariana Franklin - By Samantha Norman - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Readers who adored the captivating Mistress of the Art of Death series written by Ariana Franklin (pen name of prolific historical novelist Diana ...Read Review

Medici: Supremacy

By Matteo Struckul - By Richard McKenna (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Florence, 1469. Lorenzo de Medici has become the head of the family and de facto ruler of Florence. Life is never simple in the ...Read Review

Murder Most Festive: A Christmas Mystery

By Ada Moncrieff - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

England, 1938, and it’s Christmas Eve at the large house Westbury Manor in Sussex, home to Lord and Lady Westbury, who are having ...Read Review

Into Africa

By Bob Coles - By Kerry McDonald - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Despite the rumors, Janet Livingstone believes her brother, famed missionary David Livingstone, is still alive. When she receives a crucifix in the mail, ...Read Review

Theophano: A Byzantine Tale

By Spyros Theocharis - Published 2020

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940 – 976 CE, Constantinople. Despite her low birth, Anastasia dreams of becoming Empress. By chance, she meets the prince, and the two fall in love. ...Read Review

Dark Tides (The Fairmile Series 2)

By Philippa Gregory - Published 2020

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On Midsummer Eve, 1670, a beautiful young woman from Venice arrives at a ramshackle warehouse in London. Livia di Ricci clutches her infant son ...Read Review

Pont Neuf

By Max Byrd - Published 2020

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This atmospheric and intelligent novel of World War II boasts both insightful glimpses of Martha Gellhorn (Ernest Hemingway’s third wife) and battle ...Read Review

Fires of Change (The Fire Blossom Saga)

By Kate Northrup (trans.) - By Sarah Lark - Published 2020

Genres:

Saga

Fires of Change is the second book in the Fire Blossom Saga. It is 1863, and friends Cat and Ida have made a success ...Read Review